The weather here has been so beautiful this week!! Tuesday, we spent family day in Santa Monica! We first hit up the beach park which has a little sandy playground! Then we cruised the boardwalk and 3rd street for a few hours! It was so nice, not crowded at all!! And we saw Bill Nighy going to the baby store... hmmm, maybe I should tell TMZ? Pretty fun and relaxing at the same time! 

Wednesday we took a little trip to Newport Beach to meet our sweet little Addison! Addison is my girlfriend Cherry's daughter! She's absolutely beautiful!! We had a good time walking around the area too! Had lunch and did a little beach time for the keiki's!

We got to meet up with Beth (a family friend) before heading back home! It was really nice to just talk and walk up and down the beach! Keane actually napped the whole time! ha! Just girl time and it was so good!!

Thanks to this awesome stretch of nice weather, we had a great couple of days!! Looking forward to more beach time as we go since Keane has been enjoying it more!

Until next time!
love, love

yeah, another John Mayer mention, but I was listening to this song and thinking how crazy fast it's all going! John is talking about getting older and blah, blah (honestly John, maybe it's time to grow up) but I'm looking at this train going through life as a parent and daughter and it does hit you hard! It's not pretty, but we are all getting older. Just look at the last year of blog entries... how can I say what I am trying to say? It's like the dance I sway with my son in my arms, back and forth, back and forth to a soft song in a comforting way is the same dance we did together when he was just born, and now we do it together after he's entering his toddler years and it will be the same dance we do someday at his wedding. It's a train that just hits you hard, and it never stops. So we have to enjoy every quick second that happens right now! 

EMO MOMENT!! HAHA!! Well, we spent 2 hours at the park today!!! He loved it!! BUT, while we were there he got called a girl twice! WHAT?!? Does he seriously look that feminine? That was a first! Maybe it's time for a hair cut! ha! When we got home, Keane helped me clean!! What a great helper!! I think every mother loves this moment when their kids actually enjoy helping cleaning! 

We had to take a family photo for our church directory! It was a fun at home project. Anyway, here's a black/white version! Turned out ok! Considering it was pretty late and Keane was sooooo tired!!

Our Valentine's day was pretty chill! We busted out Keane's present as soon as we woke up! Laine couldn't wait to give Keane his first ever basketball hoop!! The cool thing is ever since Keane started walking, he's loved bouncing balls! Now he can practice setting a new baby world record of baskets ;)

Anyway, we chilled for the rest of the day. Laine had to work, so Keane and I made him some valentine's to give when he got home. We went to the park came home and had dinner, a movie and fresh homemade cookies! Sounds like a perfect day to us!!

Now, a fun little Friends clip. *sigh** I miss my Friends... hint, hint****

A special Valentine's Day wish to our family in Hawaii! We miss you guys so much!! Grandma Faye, Grandpa Ken, Uncle Bren, Auntie Linz, Cousin Landon, we love you guys and wish we could celebrate together. We hope you have a blessed day!!

xox

Nice n' busy! but enjoying it at the same time! Laine has been doing double duty of working at the store as well as ministry and I've been doing the full time mommy thing! LOVING IT!! Keane is growing SO FAST!!! It's like there was a maturity switch that just got flipped on!! 14 months old now! He walks like he's been doing it for years and almost running! He is a talking machine!! What's he saying? No one really knows. He does say "Chah" for Chia and "Dadadaaaaaddy", a few "momom's" but pretty much everything else is complete gibberish and you can't understand any of it. But he's got a lot of it to say! He's so fun! Loves to play so we have way more fun at the park now!!